Patents Issued in July 16, 2019
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Patent number: 10352096Abstract: A winding device for a roller shade includes a side bracket (1), a self-locking unit (2) and a return wheel module (3). The self-locking unit is mounted in the side bracket and includes at least one support member (21) and at least one stop member (22). The return wheel module is mounted in the side bracket and includes a return wheel (31), a winder wheel (32) and a volute spiral blade spring (33) stretched between the return wheel and the winder wheel. The volute spiral blade spring has a distal end (331) connected to the winder wheel and is provided with a locking portion (332) that is located at the distal end and is movable to lock the at least one stop member.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MY HOME GLOBAL COMPANYInventor: Ju-Huai Chen
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Patent number: 10352097Abstract: A motorized shade for covering a window, a door, or a wall opening is provided that can be actuated by touching its hem bar. The motorized shade, such as a roller shade, comprises a shade material extending from a top end to a bottom end, a hem bar assembly connected to the bottom end of the shade material, and a shade drive unit operably connected to the top end of the shade material. The hem bar assembly comprises a touch sensing module adapted to detect a user touching the hem bar assembly and transmit a control signal in response to the detected touch. The shade drive unit comprises a motor and a motor control module adapted to receive the control signal and control the motor to open or close the shade material. The control signal can be wirelessly transmitted from the touch sensing module to the motor control module.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin Slivka
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Patent number: 10352098Abstract: A step platform for use with a stepladder having front and back legs. The front leg has a plurality of steps. The step platform includes a tread portion connected to a locking portion. The tread portion has a front portion configured to rest upon a selected one of the steps and a back portion configured to extend from the front portion toward the back leg beyond the selected step. The locking portion extends alongside a front portion of the selected step and at least partially wraps around a lower edge of the front portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: Alan Charles Frensley
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Patent number: 10352099Abstract: Methods for drilling a wellbore within a subsurface region and drilling assemblies and systems that include and/or utilize the methods are disclosed herein. The methods include receiving a plurality of drilling performance indicator maps, normalizing the plurality of drilling performance indicator maps to generate a plurality of normalized maps, adaptive trending of the plurality of drilling performance indicator maps to generate a plurality of trended maps, summing the plurality of trended maps to generate an objective map, selecting a desired operating regime from the objective map, and adjusting at least one drilling operational parameter of a drilling rig based, at least in part, on the desired operating regime.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Benjamin Spivey, Gregory S. Payette, Darren Pais, Krishnan Kumaran, Lei Wang, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Paul E. Pastusek
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Patent number: 10352100Abstract: A downhole oscillation tool and method for axially vibrating a drill bit. In some embodiments, modular actuation assemblies may be provided, which may be readily interchanged between a housing and a shaft to axially vibrate the shaft with respect to the housing. Modular actuation assemblies may be mechanical, hydraulic, electric, or piezoelectric, for example, and may be characterized by differing oscillation frequencies. In some embodiments, a piezo element may be provided between the housing and the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventor: Minh Dang Nguyen
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Patent number: 10352101Abstract: A composite drill bit has one or more scraping-wheel cutting units disposed on fixed-blade. The drill bit comprises a bit body, fixed-blades, and scraping-wheels. The angular deflection of the scraping-wheel is in the range of 20°?|?|?90°. The scraping-wheel cutting unit has a scraping-wheel shaft and a scraping-wheel with cutters disposed thereon. The scraping-wheel cutting unit is disposed on the fixed-blade by a rotary connection.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Chengdu Weiyi Petroleum Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Liyuan Yang
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Patent number: 10352102Abstract: A method includes rotating a rotary drill bit about a central axis in a rotational direction. The rotary drill bit includes a bit body having a forward end and a rearward end and a plurality of cutting elements coupled to the bit body. Each of the plurality of cutting elements includes a substrate, polycrystalline diamond bonded to the substrate, a substantially planar, substantially semi-circular cutting face, a cutting edge adjacent the cutting face, and a side surface that extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cutting face. The method also includes moving the rotary drill bit in an axially forward direction while rotating the rotary drill bit such that the plurality of cutting elements cut into a formation and removing debris generated by the plurality of cutting elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: APERGY BMCS ACQUISITION CORPORATIONInventors: E. Sean Cox, Russell Roy Myers
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Patent number: 10352103Abstract: Cutters mounted on bits for advancing boreholes are subject to extreme forces that can separate the cutter from the bit. A cutter backing element with a rearward extending lug and forward face can provide support to the cutter. The backing element is attached to the back face of the cutter and the lug of the backing element is received in a recess of the bit. The backing element can be brazed to the bit and the cutter. The lug is offset from a longitudinal axis of the backing element. Forces applied to the front of the cutter during drilling operations are transferred through the cutter to the backing element and to the bit through the offset lug.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.Inventor: Jason Maw
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Patent number: 10352104Abstract: A drill bit button insert is attached to a button inserts mounted in a drill bit and performs a drilling. The drill bit button insert includes a tip body and an abrasive layer that is formed of a diamond sintered body harder than the tip body and is coated at least at the button insert working surface of the tip body. The abrasive layer has two or more high hardness layers and a low hardness layer having a hardness lower than that of the high hardness layers disposed between the high hardness layers. The high hardness layers and the low hardness layer are provided from the surface side of the abrasive layer toward the tip body side.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Wardoyo Akhmadi Eko, Toshihiko Matsuo, Chihiro Sakurazawa
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Patent number: 10352105Abstract: A method of making a polycrystalline diamond compact includes forming multiple layers of premixed diamond particles and carbonate material, where the carbonate material includes an alkaline earth metal carbonate, and where each layer has a weight percent ratio of diamond to carbonate that is different from adjacent layers. The layers are subjected to high pressure high temperature conditions to form polycrystalline diamond.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Yahua Bao, Anatoliy Garan, Michael David France, John Daniel Belnap
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Patent number: 10352106Abstract: A retention, transportation and positioning cradle for a blowout preventer. The cradle includes a frame surrounding a circumference of the blowout preventer, with the frame having an opening for receipt or removal of the blowout preventer. A lift connecter mechanism on the frame connects to a lift mechanism. A pivoting gate encloses the opening on the frame. A plurality of rollers on an upper support surface of the frame engages the blowout preventer permitting rotation of the blowout preventer with respect to the cradle.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Woolslayer Companies, Inc.Inventors: Dewayne Vogt, Shelby Heidemann
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Patent number: 10352107Abstract: A method of sealing an annulus of an electrically trace-heated pipe-in-pipe structure including introducing a flowable filler material to mold a sealing mass in situ is disclosed. The sealing mass closes a restriction at which the annulus is narrowed radially and embeds at least one heating element that extends generally longitudinally through the restriction. The structure includes an inner ring spaced within an outer ring to define the annulus between the rings. The annulus is narrowed radially by one or more projections that extend radially into the annulus from at least one of the rings toward the other of said rings. The restriction may include multiple bores, each of which may contain a sealing mass around a respective heating element in the bore.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Acergy France SASInventors: Nathalie Delaunay, Gerald Gerometta, Henri Rousseau
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Patent number: 10352108Abstract: Systems, tools, and methods include using a milling assembly with a catch mechanism configured to maintain a connection between the drill string and the mill in the event a primary connection between the mill and catch mechanism fails. A primary connection may support the weight of the mill by using a connection between the drill string and the mill. The catch mechanism may operate as a back-up or redundant connection and may support the weight of the mill by coupling the catch mechanism to both the mill and the drill string.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Jaime Ardila
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Patent number: 10352109Abstract: A technique facilitates coupling of sections of tubing, e.g. a casing and a liner. A first tubing is positioned at a desired location, and then a second tubing is deployed through an interior of the first tubing until predetermined regions of the first tubing and the second tubing are in proximity to one another. A molten metal material is located between the first tubing and the second tubing at the predetermined regions. The molten metal material is then solidified to secure the second tubing to the first tubing.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Mariano Ruben Sanchez
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Patent number: 10352110Abstract: An assembly for use in a well, where the assembly includes a casing section, a modular carrier body, at least one securing ring, and at least one at least one port through the modular carrier body for connecting a compression fitting for at least one fiber optic line. The modular carrier body has a shape that can conform to the outer diameter of the casing section, and has a carrier body interior to house at least one fiber optic line, and a fiber optic line splicing assembly. At least one securing ring has a shape conformable to both the outer diameter of the casing section and a portion of a surface of the modular carrier body. The assembly can have two securing rings on either end of the modular carrier body as it is mounted to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Gregory K. Olin, Michael Edwin Pollard, Brian Vandellyn Park
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Patent number: 10352111Abstract: An assembly for use in subsurface drilling includes a downhole probe supported in a drill string section by centralizing features that are integral with the drill string section. A bore wall of the drill string section is fluted to provide inward contact points that support the downhole probe. The downhole probe may be supported for substantially its entire length. A vibration damping and/or electrically insulating material may optionally be provided between the downhole probe and the drill string section.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Evolution Engineering Inc.Inventors: Aaron W. Logan, Justin C. Logan, Patrick R. Derkacz, David A. Switzer
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Patent number: 10352112Abstract: A device and drilling rig are disclosed for suspending loads from a bail or an elevator of such drilling rig, and method therefor. The device includes an upper bail clamp for clamping around the bail, a lower bail clamp for clamping around the bail, and a connecting part which is connected to the upper bail clamp by means of upper connecting means and connected to the lower bail clamp by means of lower connecting means. The connecting part is further provided with a coupling means for connecting the connecting part to the load to be suspended from the bail. At least one of the upper connecting means allow translational movement of the connecting part with respect to one of the upper bail clamps, while another of the connecting means are arranged to prevent translational movement of the connecting part with respect to the other of the lower bail clamps.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: Jan Noord
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Patent number: 10352113Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular product clamp for clamping a tubular product, such as a drilling pipe, and to thus support for example a string of drilling pipes. The product clamp has a ring frame and three or more clamping devices mounted along the inside of that ring frame and around a central product passage. According to the invention each clamping device comprises a base part and a clamp part and two load transfer rollers carried by a trolley frame. The trolley frame positions the base part, the clamp part and the load transfer rollers relative to each other. The base part and clamp part define between them a track, along which the load transfer rollers roll when the clamp part is moved relative to the base part.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Joop Roodenburg, Pieter Dirk Melis Van Duivendijk, Theodorus Cornelis Joanes Maria Stijnman
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Patent number: 10352114Abstract: The guide apparatus for tubular members prevents buckling, when a snubbing unit inserts the tubular member into a well. The guide apparatus includes a lower slotted cylinder having a plurality of rib extensions projecting upward so as to form lower slots, and an upper slotted cylinder a plurality of complementary rib extensions projecting downward so as to form upper slots. The lower slotted cylinder engages the upper slotted cylinder by sliding the rib extensions into the upper slots and the complementary rib extensions into the lower slots. The guide apparatus coordinates the slotted cylinders with traveling slip bowls and stationary slip bowls of a snubbing unit so that relative movement of the slotted cylinders corresponds to movement of the slip bowls. The rib extensions, the complementary rib extensions, or both support the entire length of tubular member between the slip bowls, when being snubbed.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth R. Newman, Travis Lee Bolt, Brandon Harman
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Patent number: 10352115Abstract: Sealing particles are used to stop or reduce undesired fluid loss. The sealing particles may be swellable or have effective cross-sectional areas greater than five square millimeters or are both swellable and have effective cross-sectional areas greater than five square millimeters. The sealing particles are disposed in one or more locations in which there is undesired fluid flow and, once lodged therein, stop or at least reduce the undesired fluid loss. A tubular having a bypass flow path may be used to deploy the sealing particles. The bypass flow path may use a biased or unbiased sleeve that is selectably movable to expose or block exit ports in the tubular. A retrievable sealing disk may be deployed to move the sleeve. The sealing particles may be made of a bi-stable material with extenders and may be actuated using swellable material. The sealing particles may extend in multiple dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Mohammed Badri, Reza Taherian
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Patent number: 10352116Abstract: A rapidly dehydrating lost circulation material (LCM) composition that forms a permeable plug is provided. The LCM composition may include a carrier fluid, a clay particulate material, a viscosifier, and date tree waste fibers. The carrier fluid may be water and the viscosifier may be a cellulosic microfiber. The LCM composition may mitigate or prevent lost circulation by forming a plug in a fracture of the lost circulation zone and may also enable the production of hydrocarbons from the zone without removal of the plug via an acid treatment.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Md Amanullah
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Patent number: 10352117Abstract: A pin whose movement triggers setting of the borehole tool, is initially held by a collet that is supported off a surrounding housing. A spring is supported off the pin and would push a housing that locks the collet to the pin axially to unsupport the collet but for the presence of a Kevlar® wire that has an associated heater. The wire pulls the housing that locks the collet against the spring bias and has an end attached to the pin. Melting the wire allows the spring to move the housing that traps the collet to the pin. At that point hydrostatic pressure can move the pin to either open a port on the borehole tool to set it hydrostatically or to move an actuation rod attached to the pin to set the borehole tool mechanically or with a combination of mechanical and hydraulic force.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, LLCInventor: Keven O'Connor
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Patent number: 10352118Abstract: Latchable casing while drilling systems and methods are disclosed. Some system embodiments include a casing string including an upper latch apparatus and a lower latch apparatus. The system also includes a bottom hole assembly (BHA) latched into the lower latch apparatus for steerable drilling, the BHA configured to latch into the upper latch apparatus for enlarging a rat hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Hernando Q. Jerez, Richard T. Hay, John G. Evans, Rohit Sankeshwari
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Patent number: 10352119Abstract: A packer setting tool for setting a packer device within a wellbore. The packer setting tool includes an outer housing defining a piston chamber within. A piston member is disposed within the piston chamber and is moveable therein in response to ignition of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel source.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: James C. Doane, Daniel C Ewing
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Patent number: 10352120Abstract: A packer setting tool for setting a packer device within a wellbore. The packer setting tool includes an outer housing defining a piston chamber within. A piston member is disposed within the piston chamber and is moveable therein in response to ignition of a non-hydrocarbon liquid fuel source.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Daniel C. Ewing, James C. Doane
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Patent number: 10352121Abstract: A borehole plug or packer for treating is designed to be flowed back to a surface location after use. When the treatment is concluded pressure from above is relieved or lowered, and well fluid is flowed back, so that the plug or plugs disengages at slips designed to resist differential pressure from above. The application of differential pressure from below causes the lower slips to release one or more of such plugs in the hole into specialized sub surface or surface capture equipment so that well pressure is relieved before removal of the plugs from specialized subsurface or surface capture equipment. Sensors to obtain and store data can be incorporated into the plugs or into objects landed on the plugs so that when brought to the surface the data can be processed and used in aid of production.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Tristan R. Wise, Zachary S Silva, Elias Pena, Hector O. Gonzalez
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Patent number: 10352122Abstract: A jarring device for a coiled tubing of an oil well-bore is disclosed. A sliding assembly of the jarring device which is slideable within a barrel assembly includes a mandrel and a knocker. The barrel assembly comprises a fluid chamber. The fluid chamber includes an upper chamber, a restricted segment and a lower chamber. Further, a braking assembly is attached to the sliding assembly. The braking assembly includes a ring valve made of an alloy belonging to Aluminum-Bronze family of copper alloys, and which is capable of expanding when exposed to pressure. When the braking assembly is moved into restricted segment, and the fluid within the fluid chamber is compressed, flow of fluid through the restricted segment gets blocked due to expansion of the ring. When the braking assembly exits the restricted chamber, a sudden drop in pressure causes the knocker and/or the mandrel to strike the barrel assembly and generate a powerful jarring impact and shock wave.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: Jason Swinford
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Patent number: 10352123Abstract: A valve assembly is installed within a wellhead such as a conventional tubing hanger or casing hanger used to suspend pipe or other tubular goods in a well. A seal bushing assembly is installed in a tubing head assembly or other wellhead component. A hanger valve assembly is stung into the seal bushing assembly and includes a valve that can be selectively opened or closed. In the open position, the valve does not restrict a central flow path diameter through the hanger and wellhead. In the closed position, the valve contains pressure and/or fluid flow and fully seals against wellbore pressure acting on the valve. A wellhead adapter covers the hanger valve assembly and provides an attachment point for a conventional Christmas tree or other wellhead equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: Harold Wayne Landry
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Patent number: 10352124Abstract: Example of the present disclosure relate to a bridge plug. More specifically, embodiments are directed towards a bridge plug with a flapper, wherein the flapper is configured to set and unset based on a pressure differential and/or fluid flow associated with the bridge plug.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Vertice Oil ToolsInventor: Mohamed Saraya
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Patent number: 10352125Abstract: A downhole plug for use in oil and gas well completions made of [aluminum] magnesium, dissolves in natural wellbore fluids, has a dissolvable seal made of [aluminum] magnesium split rings or a degradable elastomer, has a backup pump out ring, and may be provided to the well site as an interchangeable parts kit for adaption to the well's requirements, provides an interventionless plug in a well.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MAGNUM OIL TOOLS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.Inventor: W. Lynn Frazier
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Patent number: 10352126Abstract: An activation device is disclosed that can activate multiple downhole tools in a wellbore. The activation device is cost effective and easy to produce. A method for activating multiple downhole tools in a wellbore is described where at least one downhole tool is activated by magnetic field, while at least one additional downhole tool is activated by mating of the activation device with the downhole tool.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventor: Nicholas Frederick Budler
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Patent number: 10352127Abstract: A polymetaphosphate composition and method for temporarily sealing a perforation in a wellbore to facilitate a treatment therein and a well tool which can include a flow path, and a flow blocking device which selectively prevents flow through the flow path. The well tool can include a polymetaphosphate composition. A method of constructing a downhole well tool can include forming a structure of a solid mass comprising a polymetaphosphate composition, and incorporating the structure into the well tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: A. Schulman, Inc.Inventors: Bradley L. Todd, Stanley J. Heath
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Patent number: 10352128Abstract: Example of the present disclosure relate to a frac plug. More specifically, embodiments are directed towards a frac plug with a flapper, wherein the flapper is configured to set and unset based on a pressure differential and/or fluid flow associated with the frac plug.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Vertice Oil ToolsInventor: Mohamed Saraya
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Patent number: 10352129Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a downhole tool comprises a generator for generating electricity; a rotor connected to the generator; an electronic circuit electrically connected to the generator; a sensor for sensing movement of the rotor, the sensor being electrically connected to the electronic circuit; and a valve for wellbore fluid and for activating or deactivating a tool or function of the downhole tool, the valve being controllable by being electrically connected to the electronic circuit. The generator is configured to generate electricity to at least the electronic circuit when a flow of wellbore fluid drives the rotor. A corresponding method of controlling a downhole tool comprises configuring the electric circuit to open or close the valve depending on a variation or pattern of a flow rate, controlling the downhole tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: M-I Drilling Fluids UK LimitedInventor: James Linklater
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Patent number: 10352130Abstract: A flushable well screen or filter assembly for placement within a tubular. The assembly includes a well screen or filter having an inlet end and an outlet end; and a velocity fuse positioned downstream of the outlet end of the well screen or filter, the velocity fuse in fluid communication with the well screen or filter. A system for removing fluids from a well and a method for back-flushing an upstream well screen or filter installed within a tubular are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Randy C. Tolman, Michael C. Romer
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Patent number: 10352131Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to down-hole production equipment for use in an oil well environment is provided. The apparatus and method are for selectively isolating fluid flow through a production packer or other down-hole tubular device. The apparatus and method use a ball valve, which is moved from an open position to a closed position by lateral or axial movement of the tubing string as opposed to by rotating the tubing string.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: David Allen Dockweiler
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Patent number: 10352132Abstract: An automatic downhole jetting system for advancing a string and automatically operating a valve mechanism upon contact with a restriction in a wellbore. A jetting unit receives a working fluid, and an activation unit slidably engaged with the jetting unit. The jetting unit includes the valve mechanism for controlling fluid flow out through angled jet ports or through the activation unit. The activation unit can move toward the jetting unit upon contact with a restriction in the wellbore. The activation unit activates the valve mechanism, thereby allowing fluid to flow past the activation unit to remove the restriction. Upon removal of the restriction, the fluid flow deactivates the valve mechanism, thereby closing fluid flow past the activation unit and continuing jetting operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: David Griffith
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Patent number: 10352133Abstract: A downhole article comprises a polymer substrate having a surface that is configured for exposure to a well fluid; the substrate comprising a thermoplastic material, an elastomer, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing; and a coating disposed on the surface of the polymer substrate; the coating comprising a fluorinated poly-para-xylylene.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Anil Sadana, Vipul Mathur, James Edward Goodson, John C. Welch
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Patent number: 10352134Abstract: Oil or gas fields and associated facilities are computer simulated by solving linear algebraic equations using a Schwarz method with at least one well node included in the overlap. According to another aspect, equations for the wellbore nodes are processed to eliminate some non-pressure variables, e.g. component compositions. Other features are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Qinghua Wang, Graham Christopher Fleming, Qin Lu
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Patent number: 10352135Abstract: A method of producing oil and gas from a gathering manifold or a well. The method includes the steps of channeling field production into a sealed vessel through an inlet pipe, and permitting oil and gas components of the field production to separate naturally from water and other fluids within the vessel. The method further includes the steps of evacuating the separated oil and gas from the vessel via pipelines attached to the vessel at locations corresponding to the separated oil and gas, and pumping seawater into the vessel to pressurize the vessel and thereby aid in the production of oil and gas from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Mari Hussain Alqahtani
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Patent number: 10352136Abstract: A gun assembly for perforating wells comprising a plurality of guns with shape charges aligned centrically by end caps having insulated connector pins for conducting electrical signals and pressure through the end caps while preventing debris from the blast of one gun from entering and damaging the electrical connections and components of the next gun. The end caps being interconnected physically and electrically by specialized intermediate subs.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: Sergio F Goyeneche
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Patent number: 10352137Abstract: A gas flow velocity within a horizontal wellbore section is increased by a velocity string and a downhole-type compressor. A pressure within the horizontal wellbore section is decreased by a downhole-type compressor located within a vertical wellbore section fluidically connected to the horizontal wellbore section. Liquid build-up within the horizontal wellbore section is decreased in response to the increased gas flow velocity and the decreased pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Upwing Energy, LLCInventors: Kuo-Chiang Chen, Herman Artinian, David Biddick, Lukasz Nader, Christopher Matthew Sellers
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Patent number: 10352138Abstract: A lift apparatus and method for driving a downhole reciprocating pump is disclosed and includes a hydraulic cylinder having a piston and a hydraulic fluid port, the piston being coupled to a rod for driving the reciprocating pump, the piston being moveable between first and second ends of the cylinder in response to a flow of hydraulic fluid through the hydraulic fluid port. A variable displacement hydraulic pump is responsive to a displacement control signal to draw hydraulic fluid from a reservoir and to produce a controlled flow of hydraulic fluid at the outlet. The apparatus also includes a valve connected between the hydraulic fluid port and the reservoir, the valve being responsive to a valve control signal for controlling discharge of hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid port of the cylinder back to the reservoir to facilitate movement of the piston through a downstroke away from the second end toward the first end of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: I-JACK TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATEDInventor: Dan McCarthy
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Patent number: 10352139Abstract: An existing well has zones that respectively produce water and desired fluids. Existing production tubing is in the well to a location uphole of the producing zones and preferably in a lateral portion on the borehole. The water producing zone is between the surface and the productive zone. A coiled tubing string with a straddle assembly of inflatable isolation packers is run through the production string. An optional milling out of the lower end of the production string can take place first. The inflatable straddle assembly is run past the end of the production string for placement to straddle the water zone while allowing production from the productive zone. The coiled tubing serves as the new production tubing for the productive zone. One or more zones can be isolated or aligned for flow from productive zones.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Edgar Acorda, Ronald P. Ramnarine, Waqas Munir
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Patent number: 10352140Abstract: In one example of forming multilateral wells in unconventional reservoirs, a subterranean zone is drilled using a drilling rig to form a main wellbore. Using the drilling rig, the subterranean zone is drilled to form a lateral wellbore off the main wellbore. The drilling rig is removed after forming a multilateral well including the main wellbore and the lateral wellbore. Using a fracturing system, a fracture treatment is performed on the lateral wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Joseph DeWitt Parlin, Mario Carlos Vento-Zegarra
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Patent number: 10352141Abstract: A pressure regulating device for the injection of an aqueous polymer solution into an oil well, the device consisting of a series of straight tubes each with a pressure gauge, each tube being separated by a valve, where the valves are gate valves and/or needle valves. A method to reduce the injection pressure of an aqueous polymer solution according to the pressure of the well using the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: S.P.C.M. SAInventors: Emmanuel Pich, Julien Bonnier
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Patent number: 10352142Abstract: A method for increasing efficiency in emulsion production for a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil well system includes generating a multiple time step model of the SAGD oil well system and training the multiple time step model of the SAGD oil well system utilizing historical time series data relating to one or more SAGD oil wells at one or more SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system. The historical time series data is obtained from a plurality of sensors in the SAGD oil well system. The method also includes utilizing the multiple time step model to determine, based on a set of objectives and subject to one or more constraints, two or more sets of values for control parameters associated with one or more of the SAGD production sites of the SAGD oil well system for respective ones of two or more time steps.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew R. Conn, Lior Horesh, Matthias Kormaksson, Moshood O. Saliu, Theodore G. van Kessel
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Patent number: 10352143Abstract: A method of blowdown for a steam chamber of a thermal recovery process is provided. A blowdown mixture is introduced into the steam chamber. The blowdown mixture can include glycol and water. Heat can be adsorbed from the steam chamber onto the blowdown mixture. A viscosifying agent can also be introduced into the steam chamber. Oil from the steam chamber can be emulsified with the viscosifying agent to produce oil or emulsions of oil. The blowdown mixture and the oil or emulstions of oil can both be recovered from the steam chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ConocoPhillips CompanyInventor: Gamage Siluni
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Patent number: 10352144Abstract: A tool assembly for performing a wellbore operation including an actuatable tool, a location device, and on-board controller are together dimensioned and arranged to be deployed in the wellbore as an autonomous unit. The actuatable tool, such as a perforating gun having associated charges, perforates a wellbore along a selected zone of interest. The location device, such as casing collar locator, senses the location of the actuatable tool based on a physical signature provided along the wellbore. The on-board controller or micro-processor is configured to send an activation signal to the actuatable tool when the location device has recognized a selected location of the tool based on the physical signature. The tool assembly further includes a multi-gate safety system. The safety system prevents premature activation of the actuatable tool.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Pavlin B. Entchev, Renzo M. Angeles Boza, George R. King, Robert C. Stanton, Elton Winemiller, Randy C Tolman, Peter W. Sauermilch, Jason Z. Gahr
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Patent number: 10352145Abstract: A method of performing a fracture operation is provided at a wellsite. The wellsite is positioned about a subterranean formation having a wellbore therethrough and a complex fracture network therein. The complex fracture network includes natural fractures, and the wellsite stimulated by injection of an injection fluid with proppant into the complex fracture network. The method involves generating wellsite data comprising measurements of microseismic events of the subterranean formation, modeling a hydraulic fracture network and a discrete fracture network of the complex fracture network based on the wellsite data, and performing a seismic moment operation. The method involves determining an actual seismic moment density based on the wellsite data and a predicted seismic moment density based on shear and tensile components of the simulated hydraulic fracture network, and calibrating the discrete fracture network based on a comparison of the predicted moment density and the actual moment density.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Shawn Maxwell, Xiaowei Weng, Olga Kresse, Craig Cipolla, Mark Mack, James T. Rutledge, William Underhill, Utpal Ganguly